Charlie Fincher

Charlie Fincher
Personal information
Full name Charles Fincher
Date of birth (1892-01-23)23 January 1892
Place of birth Footscray, Victoria
Date of death 25 April 1915(1915-04-25) (aged 23)
Place of death Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Original team(s) Malmsbury and Scarsdale
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1913 South Melbourne 9 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Fincher (23 January 1892 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Essendon Town Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

A private in the First AIF, he was killed in action during the Anzac Cove landings on 25 April 1915, as part of the first action of the Gallipoli campaign.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lane, Daniel, "ANZAC hero Ted Larkin: The greatest sacrifice of all", The Sydney Morning Herald, (18 April 2015).
  2. ^ Despite various suggestions given over time, related to particular individuals, it is clear that, because, at least, six former VFL footballers were killed during the chaos of the landing at Anzac Cove – Rupert Balfe (University, Alan Cordner (Geelong and Collingwood), Claude Crowl (St Kilda), Charlie Fincher (South Melbourne), Fen McDonald (Carlton and Melbourne), and Joe Pearce (Melbourne) – it can never be definitively argued that one of these men was "the first VFL footballer killed in the First World War".